I caught up with Warlords President, Michail Woolf today. He told me that almost 140 people have registered for competitions at Call to Arms, there will be several demo games and a good number of trade stands. The competition I am playing in, 25mm DBMM Ancients has 17 registered with an 18th who said he wants to play but has not yet registered. Warmachine is the biggest competition, closely followed by Flames of War. There will also be Fantasy Battle, 40K and 15mm FoG Ancients. It should be a great weekend. See you at St Patrick's College, Wellington, August 18-19. And remember, it is the Wellington warlords 40th anniversary.

Attached are links to three news stories about Call to Arms. Later, hopefully today, I will post some pictures, and my commentary about the convention. The Warlords did a great job - I had an excellent weekend.

A big thank you to Mark Pickup for organising the DBMM tournament at Call to Arms, and for providing endless entertainment with his “unique” spelling of our names It was the 40th anniversary of the Wellington Warlords, and Call to Arms was most fittingly held at St Patrick’s College, Wellington - the first ever meeting having been on St Patrick’s Day, 1972.

Of the original Warlords (I believe there were eight not the four I had incorrectly told people earlier – my bad), Paul Graham was competing at Call to Arms.

Club President, Michail Woolf, reckoned 158 gamers played in tournaments and demonstration games. That is the biggest attendance at Call to Arms for many, many years and may even be close to a record. Well done the organisers! As well as a great convention, the Warlords put on a free barbecue lunch on Sunday. Here I should admit that my stepson, Simon, claims to have eaten five sausages wrapped in bread, two steaks, onions and coleslaw! Clearly, he is deprived and starved at home.

Special visitors included the Perry twins, Michael and Alan, from Perry Miniatures. They spent much of Sunday afternoon at the convention before heading to a friend’s house to play a multiplayer Napoleonic game, no doubt using a particular brand of 28mm plastic figures. From their reactions, I think they might have been surprised at some of the figures used in the DBMM tournament – classic, 1970’s Hinton Hunt and Hinchcliffe, that really were bought in the 1970’s. The Perrys are in Wellington working with Weta Studios on merchandise for the Hobbit movies. Details are all commercially sensitive. If they had told us anymore, Sir Peter Jackson would have had to shoot them and bury them in the back yard.

As for the “heavy metal”, 25mm DBMM had 16 in the tournament after a couple of players had to withdraw. That was still twice as many as last year’s eight and probably the biggest turnout for DBMM in New Zealand since DBMM v.2 was published. In addition, we saw lots of familiar faces visiting and speaking keenly about getting back into the hobby. Please do, we’d love to have you and your toy soldiers back in the fold.

We had a DBMM dinner on Saturday night at the Regal Chinese restaurant (recommended by Ivan’s auntie and now recommended by those who went to dinner). The DBMM team were joined by four of the six chaps playing FoG Ancients – it was great to have your company guys. Many stories were told about conventions, gamers, and armies from the dawn of wargaming in New Zealand. Some of them might have even been true. A good night was had.

Now for the unofficial results as I recorded them.

Best army: Asterixian Romans (Dirk Heinsius), by Jupiter! You may have seen pictures of Dirk’s Romans posted on discussion groups. They really are very cute. Dirk uses the standard Marian Roman list, with Julius Caesar as the CnC, of course. I feel a special mention should be made of the Later Macedonians that Peter Noble was using. A gorgeous army kindly loaned to Peter by Mark.

Thanks for a very good report Vince. Peter Noble managing 7th place in his first NZ Comp for many decades,and with a new set of rules to digest as well. A force to be reckoned with at NatCon no doubt........!!

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